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-===== I. Defining religion =====+====== Weekly plan and assigned readings ======
  
-^01.03 ^ Why is religion interesting and problematic? ^+^08.03 ^ [[1|Why is religion interesting and problematic?]] ^
 |  | We will discuss the unique weekly cycle this class follows, the assignments, and the research project. We will also share ideas about why religion is interesting and problematic. | |  | We will discuss the unique weekly cycle this class follows, the assignments, and the research project. We will also share ideas about why religion is interesting and problematic. |
  
-^12.03 ^ Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about. ^ +^15.03 ^ [[2|Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about.]] ^ 
-| Read: | Unit outline and assignments, Durkheim\* |+| Read: | Unit outline and assignments, Durkheim |
 | Write:| Describe an example of a religious practice, and how you learned about it. | | Write:| Describe an example of a religious practice, and how you learned about it. |
-| Research: | Tutorials will meet in Fisher Library this week for a library lab session. |+| Research: | Tutorials will meet **as scheduled**. |
  
-^19.03 ^ Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? ^+^22.03 ^ [[3|Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions?]] ^
 |Read: | Douglas, Ortner | |Read: | Douglas, Ortner |
 |Write: | State your answer to the question of the week, and explain your position using examples and reasoning. | |Write: | State your answer to the question of the week, and explain your position using examples and reasoning. |
-|Research: | This is a good time to browse the stacks. Read widely in several topic areas, and find out what you are curious about. |+|Research: | [[Possible topics]] assignment due this week on Blackboard. This is a good time to browse the stacks. Read widely in several topic areas, and find out what you are curious about. |
  
-^26.03 ^ Why would someone join a religious commune? ^+^29.03 ^ [[4|Why would someone join a religious commune?]] ^
 | Read: | Palmer| | Read: | Palmer|
 | Write:| State your answer to the week's question, and explain your position using examples and reasoning.| | Write:| State your answer to the week's question, and explain your position using examples and reasoning.|
-| Research:| By now, it would be good to have found one or more detailed ethnographies (p. 6) on your topic. Consult with Ryan if you want some ideas.|+| Research:| By now, it would be good to have found one or more [[starting points for your research|detailed ethnographies]] on your topic. Consult with Ryan if you want some ideas.|
  
-===== II. Religion and the economy =====+^ 05.04 ^ [[5|Can you learn to hear God?]] ^ 
 +| Read:  | Luhrmann | 
 +| Write: | Write one question you can ask in tutorial and one observation about 'hearing God' and other Vineyard practices.  | 
  
-02.04  Protestant theology created Western modernity. +^ 12.04 ^ [[6|Do religions mix?]] ^ 
-Read:  Haynes, Robbins, Robbins\*, Cannell\* +| Read: | Romberg | 
-Write:  Discuss the following: Each of these readings presents Christianity in relation to personhood. What do the authors claim about this? What was their best evidence for their claims?+| Write: | Why does Romberg reject the concept of religious syncretism? Do you agree or disagree and why? | 
 +| Research: | [[Progress report]] due this week on Blackboard. |
  
-09.04  Classes cancelled for Christian-Jewish syncretic festivals.+^19.04 ^ Classes cancelled for syncretistic Judeo-Christian feasting ^ 
 +| Research:| You should have one or more ethnographic works on a single topic that you can read over break. Pay attention to what surprises you, and start thinking about your research question.|
  
-16.04 Religion is the opiate of the masses, or religious ideas give legitimacy to the social order and power structure. 
-Read: Rudnyckyj, Wiegele, Cahn* 
-Write: Agree or disagree with this week's claim. Explain your reasoning and reflect on the facts you take from Rudnyckyj, Wiegele, and your own reading. 
-Research: Topic statement due on Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. 
  
-===== III. Enchantments ===== 
  
-23.04 Why do people pray for health in West Africa? +^ 26.04 ^ [[7|Is African Christianity just 'African culture'?]] ^ 
-Read:  Omenyo, Meyer\*, Jorgensen\*, Werbner\* +| Read: | Meyer, Newell | 
-Write:  Give one question and one observation about 'spiritual warfare'. +| Write: | Write one question you can ask in tutorial and one observation about 'spiritual warfare'. |
-Research: What is the main question - the why question - you want to ask? How many different ways can it be answered? +
  
-30.04 Witchcraft and sorcery are out of control in PNG. +^ 03.05 ^ [[8|Is Christianity singular or plural?]] ^ 
-Read:  Jorgensen, Wesch\*, Schram\* +| Read: | Robbins, Cannell | 
-Write:  Reject or defend the above thesis. Propose some possible solutions and discuss the pros and cons of them.  +| Write: | Which has a stronger influence on the other: religion on culture, or culture on religion? | 
-Research: Progress report due on Wednesday, 11:59 p.m.+
  
-07.05 You can learn to be possessed. +^ 10.05 ^ [[9|Can you buy salvation?]] ^ 
-Read:  Luhrmann, and watch Deren online +| Read: | Jones, Brenner\* | 
-Write:  Give one question and one observation about 'hearing God' and other Vineyard practices.  +| Write: | What would Suzanne Brenner say about Jones's argument? How would Jones respond? | 
-Research:  Start reading the 'feed forward' papers and consider how you would advise the authors to make their claims stronger.+| Research: | [[Thesis statement and outline]] due this week on Blackboard. |
  
-===== IV. Religion and public life ===== 
  
-14.05 The world is getting more secular. Some conservatives just haven't caught up. +^ 17.05 ^ [[10|Do all societies eventually become secular?]] ^ 
-Read: Deeb, Mahmood\*, Harding\*, Brenner\* +| Read: | Mahmood, Deeb\* | 
-Write:  Why do we see an apparent increase in 'public piety' in late modernity, both in the US and the Islamic world?  +| Write: | Why do we see an apparent increase in 'public piety' in late modernity, both in the US and the Islamic world? |
-Research: Writing workshop in tutorial.+
  
-21.05 Liberal democracies must outlaw blasphemy in order to promote tolerance. +^ 24.05 ^ [[11|Do liberal societies need beliefs?]] ^ 
-Read:  Keane, Weill\*  +| Read: | Mahmood, Keane\* |  
-Write:  Take a stand on this week's claim and discuss your reasons based on the readings and other facts you have found.  +| Write: | Do liberal democracies have a 'sacred'? Should they? |
-Research: Thesis statement and paper outline due on Wednesday, 11:59 p.m.+
  
-28.05 Religion can change the world. 
-Read: Hertzberg, Adams\* 
-Write: Take a stand on the claim that religious movements, political or not, produce greater social change than secular political activism. 
-Research: Writing workshop in tutorial. 
  
-04.06 To be revealed...+^ 31.05 ^ [[12|Can religion can change the world?]] ^ 
 +| Read: | Gravers, Hertzberg\* | 
 +| Write: | Take a stand on the claim that religious movements, political or not, produce greater social change than secular political activism. |
  
-11.06 Final paper due on 11 June. 
  
 +^ 07.06 ^ [[13|To be revealed...]] ^
  
  
 +^ Reading and finals weeks ^ Final paper due on 6 June on Blackboard. ^
  
-===== Unit readings ===== 
  
-==== Required readings ==== 
  
-Deeb, Lara. 2009. “Piety Politics and the Role of a Transnational Feminist Analysis.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15: S112–26. 
  
-Deren, Maya, Cherel Ito, and Teiji Ito. ca. 1947–1954. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. Documentary. http://youtu.be/2YIO_dxyJio?t=1m27s.+===== Unit readings (* indicates recommened readings) =====
  
-Douglas, Mary. 2002 [1966]. “The Abominations of Leviticus.” In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, 51–71. London: Routledge.+*Brenner, Suzanne. 1996. “Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim Women and ‘the Veil.’” American Ethnologist 23 (4): 673–97. doi:10.1525/ae.1996.23.4.02a00010.
  
-Haynes, Naomi. 2012. “Pentecostalism and the Morality of Money: Prosperity, Inequality, and Religious Sociality on the Zambian Copperbelt.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 18 (1): 123–39. doi:10.1111/j.1467–9655.2011.01734.x.+Cannell, Fenella. 2005. “The Christianity of Anthropology*.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11 (2): 335–56. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00239.x.
  
-Hertzberg, Michael. 2014. “The March of the Monks: On the Political Repertoire of Buddhist Monks in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.” In The Great Diversity: Trajectories of Asian Development, edited by Christopher M. Dent and Camilla Brautaset, 103–16. Wageningen, Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers.+*Deeb, Lara. 2009. “Piety Politics and the Role of a Transnational Feminist Analysis.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15 (January): S112–26.
  
-Jorgensen, Dan. 2014. “Preying on Those Close to Home: Witchcraft Violence in a Papua New Guinea Village.” The Australian Journal of Anthropology [Early View]. doi:10.1111/taja.12105.+Douglas, Mary. 2002. “The Abominations of Leviticus.” In Purity and Danger:  An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, 51–71. London: Routledge.
  
-Keane, Webb. 2009. “Freedom and Blasphemy: On Indonesian Press Bans and Danish Cartoons.” Public Culture 21 (1): 47–76. doi:10.1215/08992363–2008–021.+Durkheim, Emile. 2008. “The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life.” In A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, edited by Michael Lambek, 34–47. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing.
  
-Luhrmann, Tanya M. 2004. “Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary U.S. Christianity.” American Anthropologist 106 (3): 518–28. doi:10.1525/aa.2004.106.3.518.+Gravers, Mikael. 2012. “Monks, Morality and Military: The Struggle for Moral Power in Burma—and Buddhism’s Uneasy Relation with Lay Power.” Contemporary Buddhism 13 (1): 1–33. doi:10.1080/14639947.2012.669278.
  
-Omenyo, Cephas. 2011. “New Wine in an Old Wine Bottle?: Charismatic Healing in the Mainline Churches in Ghana.” In Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing, edited by Candy Gunther Brown, 231–50. Oxford: Oxford University Press.+*Hertzberg, Michael. 2014. “The March of the Monks: On the Political Repertoire of Buddhist Monks in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.” In The Great Diversity: Trajectories of Asian Development, edited by Christopher M. Dent and Camilla Brautaset, 103–16. Wageningen, Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers.
  
-Ortner, Sherry B. 1973. “Sherpa Purity.” American Anthropologist 75 (1): 49–63. doi:10.2307/672339.+Jones, Carla. 2010. “Materializing Piety: Gendered Anxieties about Faithful Consumption in Contemporary Urban Indonesia.” American Ethnologist 37 (4): 617–37. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01275.x.
  
-Palmer, Susan J. 2010. “The Twelve Tribes: Preparing the Bride for Yahshua’s Return.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 13 (3): 59–80. doi:10.1525/nr.2010.13.3.59.+*Keane, Webb. 2009. “Freedom and Blasphemy: On Indonesian Press Bans and Danish Cartoons.” Public Culture 21 (1): 47–76. doi:10.1215/08992363-2008-021.
  
-Robbins, J. 1998. “Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Desire among the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea.” Ethnology 37 (4): 299–316. doi:10.2307/3773784. +Luhrmann, Tanya M. 2004. “Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary U.S. Christianity.” American Anthropologist 106 (3): 518–28. doi:10.1525/aa.2004.106.3.518.
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-Rudnyckyj, Daromir. 2009. “Market Islam in Indonesia.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15: S183–201. doi:10.1111/j.1467–9655.2009.01549.x. +
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-Wiegele, Katharine L. 2013. “Reframing Suffering and Success through the El Shaddai Movement of the Philippines.” Asia-Pacific Social Science Review 5 (2): 66–88. http://ejournals.ph/index.php?journal=dlsu-apssr&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=6741. +
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-Brenner, Suzanne. 1996. “Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim Women and ‘the Veil.’” American Ethnologist 23 (4): 673–97. doi:10.1525/ae.1996.23.4.02a00010. +
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-Adams, Brad. Burma--Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma. Human Rights Watch. New York, December 2007. http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/burma1207web.pdf. +
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-Cahn, Peter S. 2006. “Building Down and Dreaming Up: Finding Faith in a Mexican Multilevel Marketer.” American Ethnologist 33 (1): 126–42. doi:10.1525/ae.2006.33.1.126. +
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-Cannell, Fenella. 2005. “The Christianity of Anthropology*.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11 (2): 335–56. doi:10.1111/j.1467–9655.2005.00239.x. +
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-Durkheim, Emile. 2008 [1912]. “The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life.” In A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, edited by Michael Lambek, 34–47. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing. +
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-Harding, Susan. 1991. “Representing Fundamentalism: The Problem of the Repugnant Cultural Other.” Social Research 58 (2): 373–93.+
  
-Jorgensen, Dan. 2005. “Third Wave Evangelism and the Politics of the Global in Papua New Guinea: Spiritual Warfare and the Recreation of Place in Telefolmin.” Oceania 75 (4): 444–61.+Mahmood, Saba. 2009. “Religious Reason and Secular Affect: An Incommensurable Divide?” In Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech, edited by Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood, 64–100. Berkeley, Calif.: Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California.
  
 Mahmood, Saba. 2001. “Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual: Disciplines of Şalat.” American Ethnologist 28 (4): 827–53. doi:10.1525/ae.2001.28.4.827. Mahmood, Saba. 2001. “Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual: Disciplines of Şalat.” American Ethnologist 28 (4): 827–53. doi:10.1525/ae.2001.28.4.827.
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 Meyer, Birgit. 1998. “‘Make a Complete Break with the Past.’ Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse.” Journal of Religion in Africa 28 (3): 316–49. doi:10.2307/1581573. Meyer, Birgit. 1998. “‘Make a Complete Break with the Past.’ Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse.” Journal of Religion in Africa 28 (3): 316–49. doi:10.2307/1581573.
  
-Robbins, Joel. 2001. “God Is Nothing but Talk: Modernity, Language, and Prayer in a Papua New Guinea Society.” American Anthropologist, New Series, 103 (4): 901–12.+Newell, Sasha. 2007. “Pentecostal Witchcraft: Neoliberal Possession and Demonic Discourse in Ivoirian Pentecostal Churches.” Journal of Religion in Africa 37 (4): 461–90. doi:10.1163/157006607X230517.
  
-Schram, Ryan. 2010. “Witches’ Wealth: Witchcraft, Confession, and Christianity in Auhelawa, Papua New Guinea.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 16 (4): 726–42. doi:10.1111/j.1467–9655.2010.01650.x.+Ortner, Sherry B. 1973. “Sherpa Purity.” American Anthropologist 75 (1): 49–63. doi:10.2307/672339.
  
-Weill, Nicolas. 2006. “What’s in a Scarf?: The Debate on Laïcité in France.” French Politics, Culture & Society 24 (1): 59–73.+Palmer, Susan J. 2010. “The Twelve Tribes: Preparing the Bride for Yahshua’s Return.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 13 (3): 59–80. doi:10.1525/nr.2010.13.3.59.
  
-Wesch, Michael. 2007. “A Witch Hunt in New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial.” Anthropology and Humanism 32 (1): 4–17. doi:10.1525/ahu.2007.32.1.4. +Robbins, Joel. 2001. “God Is Nothing but Talk: Modernity, Language, and Prayer in a Papua New Guinea Society.” American Anthropologist, New Series, 103 (4): 901–12.
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-==== ANTH 2667: The Anthropology of Religion - A Guide to the Unit ====+
  
-[[start|Home]], [[How this class works]], [[Learning outcomes]], [[Learning structure]], [[Readings]], [[Online components]], [[Assessments]], [[Assessments at-a-glance]], [[Further information about this unit]], [[Weekly plan and assigned readings]], [[Books about religion]], [[Starting points for your research]], [[Staying on top of your studies]]  +Romberg, Raquel. 1998. “Whose Spirits Are They?: The Political Economy of Syncretism and Authenticity.” Journal of Folklore Research 35 (1): 69–82.
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